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You Must Not ‘Do Your Own Research’ When It Comes To Science
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“Research both sides and make up your own mind.” It’s simple, straightforward, common sense advice. And when it comes to issues like vaccinations, climate change, and the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, it can be dangerous, destructive, and even deadly. The techniques that most of us use to navigate most of our decisions in life — gathering information, evaluating it based on what we know, and choosing a course of action — can lead to spectacular failures when it comes to a scientific matter.

The reason is simple: most of us, even those of us who are scientists ourselves, lack the relevant scientific expertise needed to adequately evaluate that research on our own. In our own fields, we are aware of the full suite of data, of how those puzzle pieces fit together, and what the frontiers of our knowledge is. When laypersons espouse opinions on those matters, it’s immediately clear to us where the gaps in their understanding are and where they’ve misled themselves in their reasoning. When they take up the arguments of a contrarian scientist, we recognize what they’re overlooking, misinterpreting, or omitting. Unless we start valuing the actual expertise that legitimate experts have spent lifetimes developing, “doing our own research” could lead to immeasurable, unnecessary suffering.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/07/30/you-must-not-do-your-own-research-when-it-comes-to-science/?sh=6338e84d535e

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Re: You Must Not ‘Do Your Own Research’ When It Comes To Science
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2021, 02:57:03 pm »
I guess no one told Benjamin Franklin or Thomas Edison about not studying science on the own. :tongue2:

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Re: You Must Not ‘Do Your Own Research’ When It Comes To Science
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2021, 10:27:14 pm »
So we should TRUST Fauci and wear thirteen masks because that's better for us.

Right.

Sure.

Sometimes the man in the street just has to accept the fact that the scientists are lying their asses off.
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